Marine litter has been recognised as a global environmental concern. Vast quantities of plastic litter enter the ocean (Jambeck et al., 2015; Galgani et al., 2021). Marine litter may cause negative ef...
... is due to the dumping itself, or due to currents or other driving forces. A detailed study of marine litter hotspots is therefore needed, examining the impact of different sources and modeling the...
...is evaluated with regard to biodiversity, status of commercial stocks, bottom impact, pollution and marine litter. The Southern Adriatic Sea and Eastern Ionic Sea are considered in this work, as th...